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diminuendo /dɪˌmɪnjʊˈɛndəʊ /Music noun (plural diminuendos or diminuendi /dɪˌmɪnjʊˈɛndi/)1A decrease in loudness in a piece of music: the sudden diminuendos are brilliantly effective...- He makes them dance for his pleasure, and you hear their breath come and go, in the swell and subsiding of those marvellous crescendos and diminuendos which set the strings pulsating like a sea.
- In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
- His first diminuendo also impresses in that his playing doesn't lose its heroic character, simply because he's gotten softer.
1.1A passage to be performed with a decrease in loudness.Conclusion comes in a diminuendo where the piano accompanied by the harp slowly melts into silence in a long arpeggio....- He (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
adverb & adjective(Especially as a direction) with a decrease in loudness: [as adjective]: the diminuendo chorus before the final tumult...- As an alternative to using the mod wheel to move dynamics, you can use actual crescendo and diminuendo performances, mod wheel crossfading between the two when necessary.
- Even in this, he misses the contribution of the diminuendo passages to the power of the climaxes.
verb (diminuendos, diminuendoing, diminuendoed) [no object]Decrease in loudness or intensity: the singers left and the buzz diminuendoed...- Soon we were working on cycles: playing that C# very loud and then slowing diminuendoing to a whisper and holding it angelically pure.
- Like it says on the videos on this site, playing quietly or diminuendoing on the low notes is difficult, there's a risk of the notes splitting.
- Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
Origin Italian, literally 'diminishing', from diminuire, from Latin deminuere 'lessen' (see diminish). Rhymes crescendo, innuendo, kendo |